Filling a gap in the healthcare literature, LGBTQ+ Health: A Guide to Inclusive Nursing Care is a comprehensive, accessible, and timely resource for nurses and allied health professionals. This unique text helps both students and practitioners develop the skills they need to offer compassionate, relevant, and inclusive healthcare to this growing proportion of society. In one convenient reference, readers will find the information they need to provide a high level of care, enhanced by numerous powerful, meaningful stories of lived experiences from a wide variety of LGBTQ voices that support theory and nursing guidance.
- Begins with the history of LGBTQ+ healthcare and the trailblazers of the past, providing a foundation of understanding and knowledge and encouraging empathy in the reader
- Covers dozens of relevant, real-world topics related to LGBTQ+ inclusive care:
- Inequalities in Healthcare covers the role of stigma and discrimination; social determinants of health; barriers to gender-affirming care; mental health disparities; the roles of nurses, midwives, and allied health professionals; unconscious bias; and more
- A Focus on Care covers clinical topics such as gender services; fertility preservation; gender and the perinatal period; parenting; alcohol and substance abuse; sexual health; health promotion; end-of-life care; primary care; cancer services; and more
- Inclusive Practice covers cultural humility and reflective practice; LGBTQ+ staff; bullying in the workplace; increasing visibility and institutional support; intersectionality; supporting colleagues; caring for LGBTQ+ young people; and more
- Arranges chapters in a logical and clinically useful manner, covering history, inequalities faced by the LGBTQ+ population, and how the information and evidence informs inclusive practice
- Includes practical advice and suggestions based on robust and referenced evidence
- An excellent reference for clinical practice and coursework in nursing, midwifery, allied health, and social work, as well as continuing practice courses in health care management and community and public health nursing
Table of Contents
1. Introduction2. ‘What’s the story?’ LGBTQ+
2.1 ‘What brought us here?’ Key dates in LGBTQ+ history
2.2 ‘Why does it matter?’ Stories from the LGBTQ+ community
2.3 Inequalities in healthcare
2.4 The roles of Nurses and Midwives
3. Legislation and policy in the UK
3.1 Similarities and differences between Wales, Scotland, Ireland and England
3.2 Adoption and fertility
3.3 Gender services
3.4 ‘What if I don’t tick a box?’ Gender exploring and Trans communities
3.5 LGBTQ+ staff 3.6 Nursing and Midwifery Council
4. Inclusive Practice
4.1 ‘What can I do?’ embedding inclusive, equitable and compassionate practice
4.2 Being an inclusive colleague and leader
4.3 Care in maternity services
4.4 Cancer care for LGBTQ+ communities
4.5 End of life provision and nursing practice
4.6 Children and young people
4.7 Public Health and health promotion
4.8 Transgender healthcare, respectful practical guidance to care
5. Conclusion
